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PRONUNCIATION OF HORSEFLY

horsefly  [ˈhɔːsˌflaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORSEFLY

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conjunction
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Horsefly is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HORSEFLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

horsefly

Horse-fly

Horse-fly is the most widely used English common name for members of the family Tabanidae. Apart from the common name "horse-flies", broad categories of biting, bloodsucking Tabanidae are variously known as breeze flies, clegs, klegs, or clags, deer flies, gadflies, or zimbs. In some areas of Canada, they also are known as bull dog flies, and in Newfoundland and Labrador as stouts. In Australia some species are known as "March flies", a name that in other English-speaking countries refers to the non-bloodsucking Bibionidae.

Definition of horsefly in the English dictionary

The definition of horsefly in the dictionary is any large stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, the females of which suck the blood of mammals, esp horses, cattle, and man Also called: gadfly, cleg.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HORSEFLY


blackfly
ˈblækˌflaɪ
blowfly
ˈbləʊˌflaɪ
botfly
ˈbɒtˌflaɪ
butterfly
ˈbʌtəˌflaɪ
catchfly
ˈkætʃˌflaɪ
damselfly
ˈdæmzəlˌflaɪ
dayfly
ˈdeɪˌflaɪ
dragonfly
ˈdræɡənˌflaɪ
firefly
ˈfaɪəˌflaɪ
gadfly
ˈɡædˌflaɪ
glowfly
ˈɡləʊˌflaɪ
greenfly
ˈɡriːnˌflaɪ
housefly
ˈhaʊsˌflaɪ
mayfly
ˈmeɪˌflaɪ
medfly
ˈmɛdˌflaɪ
sandfly
ˈsændˌflaɪ
sawfly
ˈsɔːˌflaɪ
stonefly
ˈstəʊnˌflaɪ
test-fly
ˈtɛstˌflaɪ
whitefly
ˈwaɪtˌflaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORSEFLY

horse-trade
horse-trader
horse-trading
horseback
horseback riding
horsebox
horsecar
horsefeathers
horseflesh
horseflies
horsehair
horsehair fungus
horsehair toadstool
horsehair worm
Horsehead nebula
horsehide
horseleech
horseless
horseless carriage
horselike

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORSEFLY

barfly
black fly
briefly
caddis fly
chiefly
cranefly
dry fly
fly
fruit fly
gruffly
let fly
liefly
on the fly
overfly
peacock butterfly
refly
ruffly
Spanish fly
stiffly
tsetse fly

Synonyms and antonyms of horsefly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «horsefly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HORSEFLY

Find out the translation of horsefly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of horsefly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «horsefly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tábano
570 millions of speakers

English

horsefly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुड़मुक्खी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نعرة.
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

слепень
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mutuca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Horsefly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

taon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Horsefly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bremse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아브
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Horsefly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ruồi trâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

horsefly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घोडाळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atsineği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tafano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

giez
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гедзь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Horsefly
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλογόμυγα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

perdevlieg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

horsefly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klegg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of horsefly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORSEFLY»

The term «horsefly» is regularly used and occupies the 86.366 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HORSEFLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «horsefly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «horsefly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about horsefly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORSEFLY»

Discover the use of horsefly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to horsefly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Horsefly
Jewel is afraid of everything until her grandfather gives her a special horse to raise, a small horse with the ability to fly.
Alice Hoffman, 2000
2
Horsefly and Honeybee
If Horsely and Honeybee are to escape before dinnertime, they must find a way to work together. With beautiful illustrations and simple text, this is a sweet story about sharing and friendship.
Randy Cecil, 2012
3
Insects and Spiders of the World
T A close-up of a female horsefly. The large compound eyes have many hundreds of individual lenses. These enable flies to spot movement very effectively, making horseflies harder for predators to catch. ▻ Horsefly larvae live under water or ...
Robert S. Anderson, Richard Beatty, Stuart Church, 2003
4
Sanitary entomology: the entomology of disease, hygiene and ...
... 496 Tabanus spp., horseflies, 210, 214, 217, 219, 228, 485, 492 atratus, horsefly, 210, 215, 475 biguttatus, horsefly, 215, 217, 484, 493 bovinus, horsefly, 210, 475 chrysurus, horsefly, 211, 474 corax, horsefly, 239, 240 ditaeniatus, horsefly, ...
William Dwight Pierce, 1921
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Trails of the Southern Cariboo
Horsefly and Likely Area When the Cariboo Wagon Road skirted Williams Lake, 150 Mile House became an important junction. Here freight and passengers transferred to stagecoaches heading to the Chilcotin or to the goldfields at Horsefly ...
Colin Campbell, 2009
6
Yumáyk Yumáyk
... hunting: $ariiwu-t nomiiwu-t, $ariiwu-t nomiiwu-t. horsefly-abs horsefly-abs horsefly-abs horsefly-abs The $ariiwut horsefly, the nomiiwut horsefly. Warn' -up haal-q, warn' -up neechi-q. already-pr search-pr:sg already-pr wander-pr:sg Already ...
Villiana Calac Hyde, Eric Elliott, 1994
7
British Columbia Off the Beaten Path, 5th
Horsefly (www .horsefly. bc. ca), the site of the first gold discovered in the Cariboo , is another 32 miles (51 km) east. You'll still see prospectors washing gravel in the creeks. Horsefly Lake is one of the largest in BC, and the Horsefly River, ...
Tricia Timmermans, 2005
8
Angela Sloan: A Novel
RAY SLOAN: You cleaned out the room? HORSEFLY: Pretty much. RAY SLOAN: They can't connect you to the men they've ar- rested, then. The men will know to say nothing, correct? HORSEFLY: I've got a lawyer on his way down there.
James Whorton, 2011
9
Spirit on the Water
Jackie walked up the hill and knocked on Horsefly's door. She heard the scrape of chair legs and Horsefly's pause as he leaned on the cane he called Bombshell Billy. He thumped it across the room and swung it up to push open the door.
Nancy J. McGovern, 2009
10
Horseflies of the Guyana biology, veterinary significance & ...
Figure 7: Activity cycle of the "twilight" horsefly Aggressive behaviour cycle of the Horsefly. X axis : time of day (vertical broken lines: sunrise and sunset). Y Axis: number of horseflies caught per Malaise trap (baited with carbon dioxide) per ...
IICA-Guyana

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORSEFLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term horsefly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
UAS Magazine – The Latest News on Unmanned Aerial Systems …
The HorseFly was created to work in tandem with AMP's delivery trucks, creating a safe and fast method of delivering packages. PHOTO: ... «UAS Magazine, Jul 15»
2
OUTDOORS: Movies helped introduce me to the … - The Times
The large size of the horsefly has the most painful bite. On farm animals, they bite and lay an egg in the wound cavity, which results in a grub ... «MyWebTimes.com, Jul 15»
3
Arts on the Fly festival in the books
Geoff Patenaude, one of the musical grandfathers of Horsefly, was in his element on the tweener stage, with son, Cole Patenaude, on guitar, ... «Williams Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Angling closed in classified waters section of the Horsefly River
31, 2015, all angling in the Horsefly River from the falls located at kilometre 55 downstream to Quesnel Lake is prohibited. The angling closure ... «Williams Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Eagles versus loons
A big horsefly lands very near to where I sit; so near that I could reach out and touch him. He seems a bit lethargic. Perhaps after a very hot day, ... «Walker Pilot Independent, Jul 15»
6
The fishing report
Good flies are: Murray's Flying Beetle, size 16, Murray's Horsefly, size 14; and Murray's Oak Worm, size 14. The water is clear, at a good level ... «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»
7
Arts on the Fly goes this weekend in Horsefly
The community of Horsefly will come alive this weekend with the sound of music for the 10th annual Arts on the Fly Music Festival. «Williams Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
8
Workhorse Seeks FAA Approval for Delivery Truck-Based Drone
Workhorse will be demonstrating the Horsefly at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., during the upcoming NASA ... «NGT News, Jul 15»
9
Workhorse Group Inc. Files for FAA Approval to be First to Deliver …
The combination of the Horsefly and the Workhorse EV represents a significant improvement in reducing emissions and improving the ... «PR Web, Jul 15»
10
Airtankers used to fight Horsefly Lake fire
The largest of the three active fires is two hectares in size on the southeastern side of Horsefly Lake. Airtankers surrounded the fire with ... «Williams Lake Tribune, Jul 15»

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